The Origins of Totalitarianism (Trans. from Eng. by Volodymyr Verloka, Dmytro Horchakov): Kyiv, Duh i Litera, 2005, 584 p.

Synopsis

Combining a theoretical and structural approach with a historical and genetic one, Arendt thoroughly examines the main sources of totalitarianism – antisemitism, which went through numerous stages of development, and imperialism, which created another specific phenomenon of the twentieth century – the crowd. The book examines the peculiarities of mass terror, the question of the specific historical «share of historical responsibility» of various components of society, the metamorphosis of the principle of class and party, and the specific role of the bureaucracy and party elite.

CONTENTS

Hannah Arendt's warning

Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Part I: Antisemitism

Preface

Chapter One. Antisemitism as an Outrage to Common Sense

Chapter Two. The Jews, the Nation-State, and the Birth of Antisemitism

1. The Equivocalities of Emancipation and the Jewish

State Banker

1. Early Antisemitism
2. The First Antisemitic Parties
3. Leftist Antisemitism
4. The Golden Age of Security

Chapter Three. The Jews and Society

1. Between Pariah and Parvenu
2. The Potent Wizard
3. Between Vice and Crime

Chapter Four. The Dreyfus Affair

1. The Facts of the Case
2. The Third Republic and French Jewry
3. Army and Clergy Against the Republic
4. The People and the Mob
5. The Jews and the Dreyfusards
6. The Pardon and Its Significance

Part II. Imperialism

Preface

Chapter Five. The Political Emancipation of the Bourgeoisie

1. Expansion and the Nation-State
2. Power and the Bourgeoisie
3. The Alliance Between Mob and Capital

Chapter Six. Race-Thinking Before Racism

1. A "Race" of Aristocrats Af;ainst a "Nation" of Citizens
2. Race Unity as a Substitute for National Emancipation
3. The New Key to History
4. The "Rights of Englishmen" vs. the Rights of Men

Chapter Seven. Race and Bureaucracy

1. The Phantom World of the Dark Continent
2. Gold and Race
3. The Imperialist Character

Chapter Eight. Continental Imperialism: the Pan-Movements

1. Tribal Nationalism
2. The Inheritance of Lawlessness
3. Party and Movement

Chapter Nine. The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man

1. The "Nation of Minorities" and the Stateless People
2. The Perplexities of the Rights of Man

Part III. Totalitarianism

Chapter Ten. A Classless Society

1. The Masses
2. The Temporary Alliance Between the Mob and the Elite

Chapter eleven. The Totalitarian Movement

1. Totalitarian Propaganda
2. Totalitarian Organisation

Chapter twelve. Totalitarianism in Power

1. The So-called Totalitarian State
2. The Secret Police
3. Total Domination

Chapter thirteen. Ideology and Terror: A Novel Form of Government

Name and subject index